Legal Opinion
Donald Henry Gaskins v. Kenneth D. McKellar Warden, Central Correctional Institution Attorney General of South Carolina, T. Travis Medlock
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 16, 1990No. 89-4011PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
Donald Henry Gaskins, a South Carolina prison inmate under sentence of death for capital murder, appeals the district court’s denial of an evidentiary hearing and dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for failure to show entitlement to federal collateral relief. We affirm.
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Gaskins’ victim, fellow death row inmate Rudolph Tyner, had been sentenced to death for killing a Mr. and Mrs. Moon during a robbery. Tony Cimo, a stepson of the Moons, seeking to avenge the murders, contacted an acquaintance who put him in touch with Gaskins, who was serving ten life sentences,…
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3Cited by54 opinions
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